Eyeglass-mounting.



W. R. UHLEMANN. EYEGLASS MGUNTING. APPLICATION FILED MAY 14','19o9.'

1 $36 034, Patented Aug. 20, 1912.

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TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM R. UHLEMANN, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

EYEGLASS-MOUNTING.

, Specification 6f Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 20, 1912.

Application filed May 14, 1909. Serial No. 496,037.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. UHLE- MANN, a citizen of the United States of- America, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inEyeglass-Mountings, of which the following is a specification. I Thisinvention relates to frameless eyeglass mountings, and has-for its object,,to rovide a simple and efficient construction of the arched bridge by which a strong attachment of the attaching clips thereto can be made, and to provide a simple and com-' line m-w, Fig. 2.

Similar numerals of reference indicatev like parts in the several views.

Referringto the drawings, 1 represents the rigid arched bridge which connects the pair of lenses 2 together in spaced relation, and to'such end the bridge is provided with attaching clips 3, for engagement with the lenses, as usual in rimless eyeglasses of the present type.

In the present improvement the rigid bridge 1 will have its end portions 4 offset, as shown, to provide recesses in which the attaching clips 3 fit and are brazed to afford an extended and substantial connection of the parts, and also to'provide ears or points of attachment for the nose-grip carrying levers and their actuating springs, hereinafter described, to the side of the lenses and much closer to the optical axis thereof than could be attained with the ordinary location of such pivotal points at the base of the arch of the bridge. The purpose in view is to afford a much shorter pupillary distance'between the lenses to fully meet a very common requirement in the art. In the preferred construction such pivotal points of attachment are formed at the top of cup shaped enlargements 5 in the metal of the offset bridge ends 4, aforesaid, which provideoontaining cavities for the lever actuating ing prongs springs before referred to. With such construction the piv0t rods 6 pass centrally through said cup shaped enlargements'and are preferably of a-tubular form and fixedly attached to the levers in any usual manner while their upper ends pass through the crowns of said cup shaped enlargements and are swaged or flanged over the same tohold the parts in operative connect-ion.

'T are the nose-grip carrying levers heretofore referred to, and which are pivoted on the underside of the arched bridge 1, as

above described. The outer ends of said levers form the usual finger prongs for engagement by the user in applying or removing the eyeglasses, and are offset from their pivot portions in order to provide for their movement to and from the respective clips aforesaid while the rear ends of said levers carry the nose grips 8, of any usual form, and connected in any usual manner to the respective carrying levers 7.

9 are the coiled springs above referred to,

and which are arranged within the cavity of the cup shaped enlargements 5 aforesaid,

with their inner ends attached to the pivot rods 6, and their outer ends attached to the shell of said embossments, preferably by ex-, tensions of the springs passing through \rifices in said shells as shown in F i 4.

With the construction described t 1e pivot axis of each grip carrying lever is brought into much nearer relation to the optical center of adjacent lens, than can be attained with the arrangement of parts heretofore used or proposed in the finger piece type of eyeglasses, and accordingly a very short pupillary distance between the lenses of the eyeglasscan be readily and conveniently attained 1n filling a very ordinary and usual requirement, and which it is very diflicult, and in some cases impossible, to fill with the ordinary stock form of mountings. In the attainment of the aforesaid short pupillary distance between the lenses, the ar-' rangement of the levers beneath the bridge is of material benefit, in that with such arrangement a greater-range of movement of the levers can be had without interfering with the normal functions of the other parts of the mounting.

10 and 11 are the upper and lower brac- 7 of the respective attaching clips 3, aforesaid, and which prongs in the construction shown are made of spring metal and have their free ends formed with return bends 12 and 13, the free portions of which .in turn have bearing against the edges of the 1. In an eyeglass mounting, the combination of a rigld arched bridge having attaching clips tive ends, said pivot ears bei'n outwardly beyond the heels or said clips and formed with cup shaped enlargements, a pair of levers pivoted to said ivot ears and having their fin er portions 0 set, nose grips carried by said evers, and springs arranged in the cavities of the cup shaped enlargeapt ments of the pivot ears and a ed to .ac-

and offset pivot ears at its respec-- projected tuate the levers in one direction, siybstantially as set forth.

2. In an eyeglass mounting, tion of a rigid arched bridge having attaching clips and ofiset pivot ears at its respective ends, said pivot ears being projected backwardly and outwardly beyond the heels, of said clips and formed with on shaped enlargements, a pair of levers pivoted to said pivot ears and having their finger portions offset, nose grips carried by said levers, and springs arranged in the cavities of the cup shaped enlargements of the pivot ears the combin aand adapted toactuate the levers in one disubstantially as set forth.

rection this tth day Signed at Chicago, Illinois,

of May 1909.

WILLIAM R. UHLEMANN.

Witnesses:

,RoBnR'r BURNS, RICHARD H. UHLEMANN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G." 

